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Now a regular monthly event, CUE UP is an evening of open screenings, guest talks and socializing. Producers of video/film and new media are invited to bring finished or work in progress, no longer than 15 min., on Mini DV, VHS or DVD for presentation in an informal setting. Work is accepted on a first come first serve basis at 8:00 pm, with screenings starting at 8:30pm at Video In Studios, 1965 Main Street. There are no artist fees and the general public is encouraged to attend. Socializing follows screenings.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Guest presentation:: Sarah Muff,
Cineworks' Curator and Short Film Coordinator
Location:: Video In Studios, 1965 Main St.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow
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Sarah Muff is a curator, interdisciplinary artist and the Exhibitions and Outreach Coordinator for Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society. She has curated a wide variety of short film programs including Image Playground, Refuse...Rewind...Replay and NewCineworks as well as coordinating The Satellite Short Film Festival, The Late Night Film Emporium, Cineworks Screening program and the Cinematic Salon artist talk series. She co-coordinates Meet the Filmmakers at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Sarah also runs youth and community outreach events for Cineworks, including workshops and artist talks and is the screening liaison between other organizations.
She has studied at Trent University, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Ottawa School of Art and the University of Western Sydney. She graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design with a specialization in Integrated Media. Sarah has worked in a wide variety of artistic disciplines including film, video, performance, installation, photography and theatre.
For more information contact Sarah at:
sarahmuff@cineworks.ca
http://www.cineworks.ca
For more information about Cue Up please email:
cueup@videoinstudios.com
or visit our forum at http://www.videoinstudios.com/cueup/

Now a regular monthly event, CUE UP is an evening of open screenings, guest talks and socializing. Producers of video/film and new media are invited to bring finished or work in progress, no longer than 15 min., on Mini DV, VHS or DVD for presentation in an informal setting. Work is accepted on a first come first serve basis at 8:00 pm, with screenings starting at 8:30pm at Video In Studios, 1965 Main Street. There are no artist fees and the general public is encouraged to attend. Socializing follows screenings.
VIDEO IN STUDIOS presents CUE UP #15
Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005
Guest presentation:: jil p. weaving and Patti Fraser
Will be presenting the community-based art and video
Project, "Documenting Engagement"
Location:: Video In Studios, 1965 Main St.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow
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jil p. weaving and Patti Fraser will present video excerpts and discuss their experience with the project, Documenting Engagement: A Community Arts Media Institute. Documenting Engagement brought together nine mid-career artists from across Canada to examine the practice of community-based arts and the potential of digital video as a means to document the aesthetics of engagement inherent in their work. During the three week residency, the community-based artists worked with senior artists and producers to assemble their own footage into summary shorts. The resulting video suite is now available and widely disseminated. More information about this project is available at www.documentingengagement.ca
For more information about Cue Up please email:
cueup@videoinstudios.com
or visit our forum at http://www.videoinstudios.com/cueup/

It's been a very busy summer for me exhibiting and curating, so I am looking forward to a nice break this Fall to take in some other artists' shows and start a new body of my own work.
The official start of the 2005-2006 exhibiting year starts with a bang with SWARM, the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres open houses in the city the first weekend of September. There was a nice turn out for the "Hive: A New Works Group Show" I curated for Studio #1 and Blue Cobalt #5 at 901 Main Street. A good variety of works by both emerging and established Vancouver artists, which is coming down today in both studios. The Cue Up Collective, of which I am a member, also received favorable response for the group video we presented at Video In Studios, which also had it's opening on Sept. 8, at 1965 Main Street for SWARM in the Mount Pleasant area.
While postering and taking handbills to various galleries to advertise Cue Up's monthly event, held the last Thursday of each month at Video In Studios, I took the opportunity to see what was currently being exhibited in galleries on South Granville.
The Bau-Xi Gallery, which has quite a variety of works on its walls at the moment also presents several notables, including lovely landscape paintings by Peter Hoffer. Hoffer, a Quebec native, presents work which is as much about studio process as it is about the vastness of the landscapes painted. He uses washes and stains, often stressing his medium and applies a thick, glass-like resin to the finished piece, suspending the work in 'a moment' for eternity.
Also in the same show is a lone painting by fellow Emily Carr grad, Jude Griebel. Griebel, known for his printmaking child fantasy pieces presents, "Geoff Blowing Smoke Into The Shape Of A Hare." In this oil on panel work, Griebel once again explores the convergence of adult narrative with child fantasy evoking a haunting quality which stays with the viewer long after they depart the gallery. This is an artist to keep your eye on and I look forward to future shows by this young artist.

Trekking over to the North shore to check out a brand new gallery, I joined a packed Yoyo Gallery showing of "Intimacy," by the art collective Reframe. Eleven women artists, all Emily Carr grads, exhibit a variety of works in this terrific new space by gallery owner Grace Gordon-Collins, a local architect and artist. From a barbwire corset, by Celia Pickles to a treatment of miniature by Jennifer Whittlesey, the show is strong. Further shows by the group, Jennifer Whittlesey, Wendy Copeland, Joan Collins, Valerie York, Connie Sabo, Alice Lee, Leslie Disler, Celia Pickles, Nancy Lagana, Corrinne Wolcoski and Grace Gordon-Collins are in the works including one Oct. 6 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Gallery.

Presented by Intermission and Video In Studios
Friday, September 9, 2005
9 until midnight
Cathedral Park @ Richards & Dunsmuir
Free admission

Mercury Theatre lll will be an unprecedented "outdoor presentation" of video and sound art using the downtown location, Cathedral Park, as a setting to contextualize this year's theme, "The Sub-Station".

For the 2005 theme, artists will attempt to put the location of Cathedral Park into perspective by considering its placement atop 27 floors of Vancouver's electrical sub-station. This sub-station not only connects all of Vancouver as the distribution centre of electrical power, it also suggests hidden worlds, the subterranean workings of the city, and of course, life down below.

In 2003, Mercury Theatre looked at Vancouver as a sci-fi landscape. 2004's program took sci-fi one step further to examine the 'New Barbarians' and the barbarian that is in each and every one of us. Now in 2005, Mercury theatre will take sci-fi to a new level. 'The Sub-station' will be a surface level hive of electronic art forms being fed by the source and outputting back into the world. It looks like sci-fi but it's actually real-fi!

This year's program features a fourteen piece electronic improvised orchestra, four live art performances, and over 25 video submissions from across Canada that will be mixed live for your viewing pleasure.